Ambient pollution at hip fracture units and impact on mortality and post-operative delirium: A hormetic effect?

ABSTRACT: There is increasing awareness of the deleterious effects of ambient pollution. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently advocated new safe limits of annual exposure for the three pre-dominant pollutants: fine particulate matter (PM2.5), coarse particulate matter (PM10) and nitrogen dioxide; namely 5μg/m3, 15μg/m3 and 10gμ/m3 respectively. Both the USA and UK have recently implemented news standards which are lower than their current values, but still exceed those espoused by WHO. The WHO thresholds are challenging targets. It remains to be determined the proportion of secondary healthcare institutions located in zones with mean ambient pollutant levels in excess of the WHO limits and the impact this has on patients treated at these centres. This is particularly so for elderly patie

SUBMITTER: Uzoigwe CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11661633 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature